Education Policy Quotes by Diane Ravitch

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Diane Ravitch has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
• Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their…
• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators,…
• The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If…
• What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his…
• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like…
• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they…
• You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
• Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our…
• Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
• There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people;…
• Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

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